Martin has a brief post explaining.
Christian Life
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: Keister Refutes Moon
Ever had a déjà vu experience? Ever had a déjà vu experience? Ever had a déjà vu experience? Ever had a déjà vu experience? This is the experience I’ve been having watching the discussion concerning the Federal Vision in the PCA Siouxlands Presbytery. I’ve been having . . . Continue reading →
Beale on Inerrancy
Martin is posting his interview with Greg Beale, from Risking the Truth.
Text History of the Belgic Confession
Niek Gootjes did a great job with is intro to the Belgic Confession (which I reviewed somewhere) and Wes Bredenhof has some interesting follow up notes about two 1562 versions.
A Reformed Post-Boomer Visits Mars Hill, Downtown Seattle
And it’s not all bad. We could learn a few things. At the same time, they have not escaped the individualism of the boomers.
The Evangelical Abuse of Statistics
CT has published an interesting summary of research by Christian Smith. Some of the “facts” about American Christianity you think you know may not be facts at all.
Helping Haiti (Updated)
Word and Deed Ministries sent out the following this morning: Dear Word & Deed Supporters, By now you have heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti. With a magnitude of 7.0, it has killed thousands (with one report going as high as . . . Continue reading →
Iain's Rules for Writing Well
At Ref21. (HT: Durell Flood)
People Do Not Come in Amounts
Unless you are a cannibal—in which case, good for you for learning to read. Now, stop eating people!—human beings do not come in “amounts.” Once more this morning I heard a figure in the popular media say, “The amount of people.” People . . . Continue reading →
Christ Our Crutch? Yes and No
Mike Horton says it depends on what one means by “crutch.” It if means “so I can be a better me” then no, he’s no crutch. If it means something else, however, then yes! Reuben has the quotation from a recent interview.
Physics Prof Busts Fake Schools
Most of them seem to be overseas but one hopes that when he’s done there, he’ll turn his attention to equally dubious schools (some of them religious in nature and some of them ostensibly Reformed) in the USA. He has more links . . . Continue reading →
Pushing Out…Pushing In
No one understood it completely at the time, but when Mary pushed out that baby, God pushed into the world the long-expected Prophet, Priest, and King. —Kevin DeYoung
On Lapsing Members: Coping with a Transient Culture
Re-Posted from Sept 9, 2009. The HB has addressed the problem of “churchless evangelicals” before. This question is a little different. How should consistories/sessions address the problem of members of a congregation who simply seem to disappear as if they’ve fallen off . . . Continue reading →
Clergy Ratings Hit 32-Year Low
According to a December 11, 2009 story in USA Today a Gallup Poll shows that Americans’ views of the “honesty and ethics” of clergy have hit a 32-year low, with just half rating their moral caliber as high or very high….” We . . . Continue reading →
Baptism and the Benefits of Christ: The Double Mode of Communion
Thanks to Chris Coldwell, editor of The Confessional Presbyterian, for making the
Proposed by SJC Panel: Indict Leithart
A panel of two teaching elders (ministers) and two ruling elders (elders) has recommended to the full Standing Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church in America that the complaint against the Pacific NW Presbytery of the PCA, which refused to prosecute the . . . Continue reading →
Derek Thomas on John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor
Derek says at Ref21 “by far and away the best book on Calvin this year, our very own Robert Godfrey’s John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor (Crossway). If you buy nothing else this year on Calvin – get this one and you will . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: Meet Dave VanDrunen
On Today’s episode of Office Hours, the podcast of Westminster Seminary California, David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, talks about upbringing, how he became a minister, his training at WSC, and his research into the biblical, . . . Continue reading →
Matthew 2 As the Remake of a Great Story
Martin Downes has a meditation on Matthew 2 and Jesus as the Israel of God.
The HB Passes 1 Million Hits
As they say on the commercial, “Thanks for your support.”